1 August 2010

well things are stressful here. Stephen landed out in Hungary and is still being retrieved. Paul landed out in Serbia!!! The Serbians shut the border and wouldn't let crews through. They confiscated glider documents. The competition director had to go to the border to sort it out. Just now at 2130 Bruno is through the border at last and on his way to Paul who is being fed by locals in his field in the dark with mosquitoes :-( I foresee a very late night for lots of 15M class pilots. I have not had a chance to check results yet, been running round all evening getting maps and trying to sort out the border problem - did all 150 gliders land out, or have to motor home??. I am very likely to give the comp organisation a piece of my mind!!!!! This happened the last time they tasked in to Serbia - you would think they would have learnt their lesson by now??? And Liam fell over and cut both his knees and has been very upset all evening too and wanted his Daddy who isn't here :-( sigh.... poorly run comps get right on my NERVES!!!!!!!!

Posted by Siobhan (p.s. who is very cross at the moment, and might wish to tone down this posting by tomorrow morning, but what the...)